2014-12-08

SBCL

I asked ~vilmibm to
install SBCL yesterday and, happily, he agreed. I
intend to use ~.town as a means for learning Common Lisp. I've always been enamored of
functional languages but never really dug into one for a "real" project -- the closest
I've come is the pile of
random elsip
that ties my Emacs environment together. More to come in this space on this topic.

Side note: there seems to be something different about editing files and running
tools on ~.town instead of my typical M/O of installing tools locally, authoring
things, and then publishing them somewhere else. There's something strangely
compelling about saving a file and seeing the changes immediately in a public place
when I refresh my browser. I caught myself yesterday making my first steps with sbcl
on my laptop and then consciously deleted all of it in favor of proceeding entirely on
~.town.

2014-12-06

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2014-12-05

I used to create a lot of art - visual art: paintings, prints, films, sketches - in
high school. Today I feel like that's something that's missing for me that I'd like to
get back; I wonder if "tilde" will help me get there.

I work with computers every day but the feeling of creating somethign solid and
lasting is rare. Maybe this little space will be a good place to try new things.